A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with using artificial intelligence to generate sexually-explicit images of children he knew.
Seth Herrera, 34, an Army soldier stationed in Anchorage, possessed thousands of images depicting the violent sexual abuse of children and relied on AI tools to generate realistic child sex abuse material, according to a Monday statement from the Justice Department. He was arrested last week and made his initial court appearance Tuesday.
Herrera took pictures of minors he knew and ran them through AI software to undress them or transpose them onto pornographic images depicting them performing oral sex or being penetrated by a sexual object, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post.
According to court documents, a review of Herrera’s three Samsung Galaxy phones, which were obtained during a search warrant executed by Homeland Security Investigations, revealed that he possessed “tens of thousands” of videos and images depicting children as young as infants being …